St Peters School

This morning Sarah and I made our last visit of the year to St Peters School.  It was great to see all the children again, they were well and truly in the festive mood and looking forward to Christmas.  We started the assembly by asking what song they would like to sing first they picked Shine.  After the song we did a recap of the assembly we did two weeks ago before showing them a short video clip which tells the Christmas story with lovely pictures and a rather catchy poem.  After the clip I spoke to the children about it, there was a repeating phrase that came out several times which was "...turn what was bad in to glad once again..." I asked what is it that makes our world bad, I got several really good answers from fighting and war to people not respecting nature.  I explained that Jesus came to show us the way we can turn things around and change what is bad into glad.  By his love, kindness, compassion, humbleness he showed us how we should live our lives in the way God wants us to.  Sarah then introduced the final song which was our Christmas song Rejoice with Us.  After the song she closed the assembly with a prayer.